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Jaws Will Drop: Thirteen Minutes Of Metro - Last Light 

Usually when I watch long sequences from unreleased games I'm squinting, wearing my analytical face, trying to work out where the gap between hype and reality is most obvious, trying to see what might be true and what might be marketing. The E3 video of Metro: Last Light, just now released for wider consumption, is thirteen and a half minutes long and I didn't squint once, I'm not even sure I blinked judging by the film of dust I'm now scraping out of my eyes. It looks and sounds absolutely stunning, and the wait until the Q1 2013 release suddenly seems extremely long indeed.

Here's the context, which I read after watching the video because I'm an impatient little wretch.

In this sequence, Artyom is forced into an alliance with the young Red Line officer named Pavel as they attempt to cross the hostile surface of post-apocalyptic Moscow in a bid to reach the relative safety of the legendary station city, The Theatre.

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